Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy

In her article, “Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy,” Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels enact a poetics of work for present moment—not just at level narrative but also in kind language used to describe service economies his characters are doomed inhabit. best-known novels, clinical, bureaucratic, even glorifying lexicon “donations,” “completions,” “substitutions,” “lifting” is betrayed by reality grounded horror. worlds, which very much our own, out-sourcing reproductive domestic labor enabled larger system state technologies as well linguistic forms mark certain bodies readily exploitable disposable. Looking comparatively between dystopian literary form recent critical on care industries, article shows how tension euphemistic social logic mass death speaks own moment crisis that, after years austerity now global pandemic, defines present.